Seminar: Critical Theory of IR Write a short reaction to the mark and comments that you received on your essay. List how you plan to address any issues that were problematic in your next essay. Watch video and discuss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KwdtCmvWg 1. What is more important, knowing what you know, or knowing what you don't know? 2. Do you agree with the Frankfurt School that popular culture deadens the intellect and absorbs the revolutionary spirit? 3. Can reason be "produced" through dialogue as Habermas argued? 4. Is morality an "an affair internal to a particular community" or does "the moral law bind men as men and not as members of any particular community"? 5. Linklater described historical periodisation as the development in man's growth to higher levels of self-consciousness - do you agree that throughout history men have developed higher levels of self-consciousness? 6. Linklater described the current state system as one of "limited moral communities." Do you agree with his criticism of the system or do you see it as the most logical one? Do you think it can be changed - bringing about a "new world order" or do you see that as unlikely?